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Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai helped transform space science in India from an ambitious idea into a national programme. His achievement was not simply the creation…

Reports of hair apparently growing from a statue in Maharashtra can seem extraordinary, especially when the image is shared with claims of divine intervention.…

The “third eye” is often described as an inner organ of perception, located between the eyebrows or associated with the pineal gland deep inside the brain. In…

For many patients with severe heart-valve disease, surgery is only the beginning of a long medical journey. The cost of an imported prosthetic valve,…

The Critical Thinking Lesson from the 2012 ‘End of the World’ Hoax in India is still relevant in an age of viral videos, forwarded messages, and…

The Taj Mahal is often described as a monument that changes color with the light. Its white Makrana marble can appear pink at sunrise, dazzling white during…

Across India, temple lamps are associated with devotion, protection and continuity. In some shrines, visitors report that a diya burns for unusually long…

Snakebite envenoming is a medical emergency, not a condition that can be reliably cured by prayer, herbal mixtures, charms, incisions, or secret antidotes. In…

Long before modern space telescopes, astronomers learned about stars by studying the light reaching Earth. A spectrum could reveal a star’s temperature,…

Water divining, also called dowsing or water witching, is often presented as a mysterious ability to locate underground water. A dowser may walk across a field…